Class was once a strong indicator of which political party you would support. But since 2001, something quite different has been happening.
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A populist movement that threatened to topple a French government more than 60 years ago has important lessons for today’s protests and why they represent a reckoning.
The socially and ethnically diverse working classes are not being heard. A recent project aims to change that.
Viewers are taking to Twitter to display their prejudice about Islanders’ accents.
Research shows that it’s all about choice, not exclusivity, when it comes to finding a perfect match.
Trump’s demagoguery took political discourse in America to a place where it lost contact with reality.
The student protests that rocked South Africa’s universities in 2015 are part of a class struggle as poor and marginalised people fight for their place in an unequal system.
James Blunt is upset. He has objected – in terms neither civil, nor particularly well-argued – to the suggestion from shadow culture secretary, Chris Bryant, that people from working-class backgrounds…
Last week a report from the Education Select Committee called new attention to an old problem: white working-class children consistently do especially badly at school. In response to a persistent cycle…
The underachievement of white working-class schoolchildren in the UK continues to be a subject of contentious debate. It is well-documented that white working-class pupils do less well and suffer low social…
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